Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-08-25
KEATLEY UNMASKS SOVEREIGN.
The Facts Regarding that Five
Hundred Dollar Brine.
Council BLUFFS Iowa,
August Is.


F. c. Clark Esq, Editor Red Oak
Sun Dear Sir: | have carefully
read your card sent me, in which
you give the circumstances of the
withdraw of DIR. }. b. Hatlon from
the congressional canvass last fall,
and also your version of the prop
osition that was made by J. X.
Sovereign. of Atlantic, to support
me for congress in case | would
comply with certain proposed con-
ditions presented to me.
In the first place you state it accu-
rately when You say that DIR. Hatton
always expressed the most friendly
personal interest in my success, and
that he withdrew from the contest
at last without consideration or
promise of consideration on my
part, or on the part of any of my
friends, whatever. DR.. Hatton
withdrew from the contest because
his most faithful and intimate po-
lltical friends advised him to that
course, at Des Moines and else
where, and not because Of any prop
osltion of any kind that | made him,
or any of my friends.
Now as to the proposition that came
from the Sanders-Soyereign end of
the string. Sovereign and Sanders,
brothersin.law, were publishing q
so called industrial organ at Allan
tic, at that time, Some days be.
fore DR.. Hatton concluded to with
draw l was on my way home here
from a campaign of speaking day
and night. You came into the
smoking car where | was, when the
train was between PaciIc Junction
and Council Bluffs. The first words
you used when you saw me were;
II am glad to see you; If | had seen
you at Pacific Junction while the
train stopped there, | might have
saved this trip" l at once asked
you what this particular errand was,
and you prefaced your statement
with this remark: II hardly dare
tell you what am after, | told the
man that feared you would resent
it with indignation, but that while |
knew you would not consider the
proposition for one moment, to gel
rid of importantly had consented
to lay the matter before you"
told you to go on; that on your
own personal account, would
listen to you and take no offense, nc
matter how obnoxious the propo-
sition might be. You then said
that w. II. Sanders, the bushes:
partner and brother in law of ]. H
Sovereign, had authorized you TO say
to me that if / would induce my
personal and political friends in
Council Bluffs to raise $500 and pay
the same over, so that mortgage
in favor of Thomas Meredith hang
ing over the printing Office at Allan
&c, run by Sanders and Sovereign
would be raised, all the influence
possessed by Sanders and Sovereign
and the paper printed in that office
would be exerted toward my election
to congress. You said in the same
breath that I would not listen tc
such a corrupt proposition ont
moment. You remember, too, tina
l did not wait moment after you
had finished stating the proposition,
until l told You very empbatically
that if nay "personol and political
friends in Council Bluffs were will
ing to put up million dollars II
that way, and for that purpose,
woul 1 never consent to it; that
would never consent to submit my
self to personal obligations of tina
kind; and that if elected they Woult
hamper my influence as a member o
congress" You remember, too
that ! told you that u would soone
suffer defeat than purchase my
election by one single corrupt prom
Use or consideration"